Google Earth time-lapse feature is the technical feature that Google has launched. The feature allows the users to get a good glimpse of the earth from the past few decades. With the help of the google earth time-lapse feature, viewers can easily track and see various past events. So, the events like melting of glaciers, evolving of global warming, or even deforestation of Amazon forests, can be better viewed. The Google time-lapse is one of the grandest updates from the company in the last four years.
Google Earth time-lapse: Features and Access
The time-lapse feature is easily accessible through browsers and offers a great set of pre-bundled features. As soon as you to go the browser to see the time-lapse, it showcases the melting away of the Alaskan glacier. Apart from this, you can also get to see the forest protection efforts in Brazil. The time-lapse feature is global and is emerging as a great tool in creating awareness about climate change and global warming. One also gets to see the changing patterns of sands of Cape Cod and also the parched Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea.
Now, the world has changed on the industrial parameters also. So, the google earth time-lapse feature also shows a quick Las Vegas expansion to the artificial islands of Dubai.
The 24 million satellite photos:
Nearly 24 million satellite photos power the google earth time-lapse feature. And these pictures are taken from the NASA, US Geological Survey’s Landsat, and also the EU’s Copernicus Project in unison. The ensemble of these 24 million images makes up to 20 petabytes and these images have been collected since 1984. Now, all these images put together can make a single video of 4.4 tetrapixels, which almost equals over a half-million 4K ultra-high-resolution videos. Now Google used its highly sophisticated machines and equipment to process this magnitude of data.
Statements from Google:
An official from the company said, “As far as we know, time-lapse in Google Earth is the largest video on the planet, of our planet.”
It was further added, “We hope that this perspective of the planet will ground debates, encourage discovery and shift perspectives about some of our most pressing global issues”, as the BBC reported.
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